Canary Wharf is the Death Star

‘I have a very bad feeling about this.’
In ‘Star Wars’, the Death Star is the absolute heart of darkness: a vast steel structure with the power to destroy an entire planet, where the drones of the evil empire busy about on devious errands. To be fair, Canary Wharf does differ in one key aspect: it has a Wetherspoons. And you almost definitely can’t blow the whole thing up with a single laser shot.

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